O'Kelly savours trip to unknown

AT least, Malcolm O'Kelly is interested in travelling. That is one positive he took on the arduous trip to Siberia.

Irish rugby enters it's gulag this morning punishment for failing to breach the Argentinean line in those desperate final 10 minutes in Lens three years ago.

The rather humbling road to next year's antipodean World Cup will, hopefully, ensure such a disaster doesn't befall Irish rugby again. In the meantime, the players must fortify themselves for this step into the unknown, and a chance to visit the barren wasteland that housed some of Stalin's more evil excesses.